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INTERVIEW: 'Bastard Tongues' author curious about language
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Mary Lingwall
University Wire
04-02-2008
(Daily Texan) (UWIRE) AUSTIN, Texas -- An English major from Cambridge with a love of adventure, Derek Bickerton answered an advertisement to teach English in Ghana in the early '60s. Soon after, he fell in love with the study of the Creole languages that he encountered there, a love that has led to a career in linguistics that has truly changed the field.
Now as professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Hawaii, Bickerton has published "Bastard Tongues," a memoir of his career as a Creolist and his Bioprogram hypothesis, which posits that ...
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Bastard Tongues' with a spoonful of sugar
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; ...19-2008 (Daily Texan) (UWIRE...new book, "Bastard Tongues," is anything...their noses at "bastard tongues" for their...languages, "Bastard Tongues" is a fun and...C) 2008 Daily Texan via UWIRE
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Bastard Tongues.(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
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; Bastard Tongues Derek Bickerton Hill & Wang [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bickerton delivers an exciting story of illumination about what it means...
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The mother tongue: Creole: a search for a common language.(Bastard Tongues: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages)(Book review)
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; Bastard Tongues: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages, by Derek Bickerton, $26...
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THE RED & BLACK AND THE DAILY TEXAN WIN NATIONAL REPORTING AWARDS
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Daily Texan questions A&M business school rank
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The Daily Texan: The First 100 Years
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